Perfectionism, Self-forgiveness and Prayer

Both perfectionism and self-forgiveness bear a direct relation to our understanding of God. The first step of prayer is telling the truth about who and where we are. It is also, at the same time, learning the truth about who and where God is. We are the ones who tend to place limits on the mercy of God. Prayer involves a capacity to stretch our imagination, to imagine and therefore to begin knowing a God who is not a projection of our own self-condemnation … The idea that prayer is somehow a production (in the economic or in the theatrical sense –both are destructive) will take us away from prayer.Jane Redmont, When In Doubt, Sing (Sorin, 2008)

This has been on my heart since Friday, I just can’t shake it. That is a good thing. All I am here to do today is share it with you all.

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